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BGS artificial ground data: what do you need from a geological survey?

28/08/2025

BGS is seeking user feedback on artificial ground data: how you use it, what information you consider, and what we can do to improve our offering.

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Wild grasses and pond with a path and the old Broad Marsh in the background.
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New research published on brownfield land

27/08/2025

National Brownfield Forum research on the interactions of policies affecting the planning and development of brownfield land has been published.

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Fieldwork setting up the Abergavenny geomagnetic repeat station BGS © UKRI.
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NERC Tech Forum 2025

Event on 03/06/2025

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Gemini: a new stable isotope tool

21/08/2025

BGS’s Stable Isotope Facility has new mass spectrometer equipment for analysing carbon and oxygen isotopes from carbonates and water.

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Rhossilli Bay on the Gower, south Wales
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New seabed maps offer a window into the distant past

10/10/2022

BGS has begun publishing a new series of high-resolution offshore geological maps showing the distribution of bedrock and sediments that make up the seabed around our coasts.

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New geological map of offshore Anglesey released

10/10/2022

BGS has released a new fine-scale digital map featuring the seabed geology of offshore Anglesey (Ynys Môn).

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BRITICE-CHRONO team in conversation on board RRS James Cook
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Project findings provide essential insight into the last British–Irish ice sheet

29/09/2022

Understanding more about the north-west European continental shelf and improving forecasting for the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets.

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Diatom silica under Scanning Electron Microscopy for isotope analysis using MOBiS instrumentation BGS © NERC
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BGS receives funding for new system to analyse oxygen isotopes

26/09/2022

A major upgrade of BGS's research equipment following investment from NERC will help scientists understand historic changes in climate.

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Recent scientific advances in the understanding of induced seismicity from hydraulic fracturing of shales
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Scientific report published

22/09/2022

BGS was requested by the UK Government to address six questions related to recent scientific research on the hazard and risk from induced seismicity during hydraulic fracturing of shale rocks.

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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: 1926 to 2022

09/09/2022

BGS Director, Dr Karen Hanghøj today paid tribute to the life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

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Garry Baker, BGS Director of Informatics
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Garry Baker appointed BGS Director of Informatics

07/09/2022

Garry Baker has been appointed by the British Geological Survey (BGS) to be its new Director of Informatics.

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Join the BGS Board

05/09/2022

BGS is looking to appoint two non-executive directors to join our board.

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